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Your Google Number Coming Soon
It’s not what you know, but who you know. And now Google wants to rank you based on who you know and how influential you are with them. Not everyone is equal. This is especially true in social networking sites. Where some are definitely more equal than others. They have more friends, they participate in [...]
CEO Blog of the Day: Williard Marriott
CEO’s can blog too. Even CEO’s of large multi-national corporations with global name brand recognition and revenue comparable to small nations. And in many ways blogging is a lot more effective when the person at the top of the organization starts to engage people on the web. Not only will there be a positive impact [...]
More Women Than Men Participate in Social Networks
Except for LinkedIn, more women are on social networks than men. That is according to data released by RapLeaf, an online reputation management company based in San Francisco. I had a hunch about this phenomenon a while back when I started hearing of mommy bloggers, but I had not seen data to back it up. [...]
High Profile Blogger of the Day
To counter the argument that some people are simply too busy to blog, I wanted to highlight a particularly high profile individual who happens to prolifically blog. He is the current Secretary of Health and Human Services Mike Leavitt.
Recently he has been blogging about his trip to the Yakutat Tingit Clinic in Alaska and it’s [...]
Social Networking vs. Reunion With Former Classmates
I saw an interesting article today on STLToday.Com on how social networking sites may be competing with high school class reunions. A very interesting phenomenon indeed because I can personally relate to the feelings described in the article. Ever since I’ve been on Facebook I’ve connected with a lot of my former classmates (both high [...]
Facebook Challenges MySpace Dominance
From the Financial Times over the weekend:
Facebook, the fast-growing social network, has taken a significant lead over MySpace in visitor numbers for the first time, according to one popular measure of internet traffic.
Facebook attracted more than 123m unique visitors in May, an increase of 162 per cent over the same period last year according to [...]
MySpace Frontpage Makeover
The new MySpace page is here. That is probably why navigation in MySpace is a bear right now - takes a log time for simple graphics to display. I’m sure things will improve as the transition is completed. Below is the screen shot, and here is Tom’s note:
Hey Folks! No doubt you’ve noticed the new [...]
MySpace Aims At Google and Yahoo!
MySpace seems to be gearing up to go head to head against Yahoo! and Google. According to a report in AdWeek they are in the final stages of re-designing the layout to make it more of a portal setup. This is of course different from their current page - which is more of a [...]
